Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

That's apparently the thought on the Chiefs' minds. After the Bears lured away Kansas City director of college scouting Phil Emery to be their new general manager, the Chiefs put the kibosh on the Bears' next maneuver. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chiefs would not let the Bears speak with Kansas City QB coach Jim Zorn for the same position in the Windy City. Zorn would've brought a great deal of experience to Chicago, after coaching quarterbacks in Washington, Baltimore and Kansas City for a combined nine years.

The Chicago Tribune reported that the Bears' interest has shifted to another former NFL quarterback. Coach Lovie Smith apparently was scheduled to meet with Alex Van Pelt, who spent 11 seasons playing quarterback in the NFL, including 10 years in Buffalo, on Tuesday.

Van Pelt later served as the Bills' offensive coordinator, but his tenure there was a matter of months, not years. He was later credited with helping Buccaneers QB Josh Freeman develop into an elite passer during his two seasons as Tampa Bay's QB coach. He was let go after the Buccaneers finished 4-12 this past season, and Freeman's passer rating went down from 95.9 in 2010 to 74.6 in 2011.

Still, former Buccaneers TE coach Alfredo Roberts expressed plenty of faith in Van Pelt in Vaughn McClure's article for the Tribune.

"I have all the faith in the world in Alex,'' Roberts told the Tribune on Monday. "He has good ideas. He's a good teacher of young men. And he's one of those guys (that) if there's tension in the room, he'll bring levity.''